Lesson 20

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Question SA-4. Here is the text reference (p. 200/2):

In 1945 he published his novel Señor Presidente, which is one of the sharpest literary criticisms of Latin American militarism ever written. The Guatemalan reformist presidents Arévalo and Arbenz gave him support and diplomatic posts. But he was forced to go into exile when Arbenz fell, and these circumstances provided him with additional themes: foreign meddling in his country, and the exploitation of the banana workers. Asturias' writings, based on his special blend of scholarly research, imagination and political commitment, won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1967; this was the first for a Latin American novelist.